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I really look forward to reliable (modern) macOS emulation, a la wine. I miss some of my wee little Mac utilities / games now that I’m in Linux full-time. I’m r
by troad 4y ago
I really look forward to reliable (modern) macOS emulation, a la wine. I miss some of my wee little Mac utilities / games now that I’m in Linux full-time. I’m rooting for the guys working on stuff like Darling[0], but it looks like they still have a long road ahead.
[0] https://darlinghq.org/ https://darlinghq.org/
- drewg123 4y agoI took a look at their page, and they say that they "finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications". However, their blogs/progress reports are 4 years old. Do you know how far along their support for graphical apps is? Running GUI apps is what's going to make this useful, and is what nobody else (AFAIK) was ever able to do.
- troad 4y agoTheir GitHub is active, and they have a Discord. I don’t do Discord, but if you do, you could probably follow their progress on there. As of 2020, graphical app support appeared to be basic but somewhat functional: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/657 https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/657 I agree that GUI apps are the real use case here. Honestly, reversing and recreating the MacOS APIs is such a mammoth effort though, I can understand why progress would be slow. Wine faced a similar struggle, but also had an urgent need driving it: we needed Win apps to work to make Linux viable for most people. That’s less the case for Mac apps, so Darling is by necessity more of a passion project.